'I cancel classes at my gym or an aerobic studio, thinking that I’ll just use the Mirror instead. But then I don’t. In the middle of boxing, I’ll wander off to send a non-urgent email. I’ve become very half-ass through the looking glass.'
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The app that controls the Mirror’s classes has a pleasingly crisp structure. When I pick a class, a two-foot-tall fitness instructor in neon spandex immediately superimposes on my reflection. I appear like a semi-transparent Russian doll with a petite dancer trapped in my torso. Generic rave music spools from the Mirror’s speakers. A circle at the top of the screen counts down the time, another circle at the bottom counts up the calories.
On my second day flickering around my simulacrum, the Mirror strength instructor wears another matching spandex set, this time in a soft pastel rainbow style that looks like the Apple pinwheel stalling out. Over a marimba loop plinking from the Mirror speakers, the instructor welcomes us to this “no judgment zone.” There’s no one here to judge, Julie. I’m working out with the void. All instructors on the Mirror seem to float in empty, deep space, bobbing brightly on a dark background.
As a human living in the world my whole life, I find that anything too accommodating breeds suspicions. Mostly, I do not trust the Mirror’s rapid calorie count. I learn that other test users saw a big mismatch with the Mirror and their Apple Watch calorie reports. Mirrors don’t lie, but then they do.
The Mirror, as a company, is as go-get-’em ambitious as every trainer, in their encouraging hearts, tells me that I can be. As mentioned in the Mirror’s privacy policy, the Mirror reserves the right to advertise to me on my device. It hasn’t happened yet, but I am poised. In conversation, Putnam discusses the Mirror’s potential expeditions into fashion and medicine.
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